Thanks a lot to everyone who voted in the election and decided to put their trust in me. I'll do my best to live up to your expectations.
I'd also like to thank the other candidates who offered to volunteer as a moderator, especially Zanna who made a very close second place. I hope you all continue to contribute to Ask Ubuntu in your own ways and will ...

Zanna's Answers
If you are asked to defuse a situation between two users who are angry at each other, what would your approach to the resolution of this dispute be?
I've been in this position a few times and it really depends on the people, my relationship with each of them, their relationship with each other, and what exactly has happened. It's much ...

My question started after looking at the nominations right now and seeing a very strange nominated user who appears on other sites for nomination and has little score in all. This makes me wonder a lot about the intent to go for moderator and what could happen.
People want to become moderators for a great variety of reasons. Some high rep users make ...

Thanks to everyone that participated and voted!.
Congratulations to Roland and Jokerdino!
I would also like to personally thank my producer, director, writers, the staff behind the scene, the music band, the dog next to the food, the other dog next to the dog next to the food. The lighting people, the cleaning lady, my family, friends, the book from ...

What timezone are you in and when will you be most active?
Rationale: the moderators we have now cover quite a broad range of times throughout the day, but there are a handful of times when there are no moderators around (Friday evening, PST, for example).

You get an inbox notification for moderator elections on every site where you are able to vote for the candidates. According to the election page itself (yellow note on the right):
Any community member with 150 reputation may vote in the election.
So if you have enough points on SO to vote in the election, you of course get notified for it. How else ...

Jacob Vlijm
What timezone are you in and when will you be most active? The moderators we have now cover quite a broad range of times throughout the day, but there are a handful of times when there are no moderators around (Friday evening, PST, for example).
I live in the Netherlands, so +2:00, Central European Time.
I have to work a normal job's ...

Terdon
What timezone are you in and when will you be most active? The moderators we have now cover quite a broad range of times throughout the day, but there are a handful of times when there are no moderators around (Friday evening, PST, for example).
I'm in UTC+3. I work during the day, but I tend to keep an AU tab open when at work, so I will be ...

ByteCommander's answers
If you are asked to defuse a situation between two users who are angry at each other, what would your approach to the resolution of this dispute be?
Like with most questions, it depends on the individual case what actions should be done. Generally a moderator is there to moderate and help both parties to settle the argument in a ...

Here is a set of general questions, gathered as very common questions asked every election. As mentioned in the instructions, the first two questions are guaranteed to show up in the Q&A, while the others are if there aren't enough questions (or, if you like one enough, you may split it off as a separate answer for review within the community's 8).
How ...

As the site gains more and more moderators, it will become increasingly important for the existing moderators to think and act alike so that we the laymen can can know what to expect, regardless of which moderator is acting. Describe your relationship with the present moderators and why you would expect them (and not just us) to trust you as a moderator as ...

The existing moderator team doesn't always agree in private (the joke is if you ask 10 people the same question, you'll get 15 answers).
What will you do if the majority of moderators are opposed to your point of view?

Moderator elections are not scheduled events. Instead, they are brought up as the need arises, namely when more moderators are considered "needed." As you can see from the elections list, there was no scheduled election for 2015, because no new moderators were needed.
To be more exact, moderator elections typically happen when the community moderators ...

No, technically you do not have to vote more more than one candidate for your vote to be counted. However, it is highly recommended that you do so!
SE elections use what is called the STV (Single Transferable Votes) method of tallying votes. This is a system specifically designed to minimize wasted votes when electing more than one candidate at a time out ...

Just as people might be uncomfortable putting themselves forward, it might make them uncomfortable to be put up for election. They might be uncomfortable turning it down. They might remain in the running because it's the easier thing to do.
Being a moderator is not just a title you earn for being popular, it's an ongoing job that is often thankless and ...

A few points:
A link to team@stackexchange.com is on the bottom of every page. If anybody has a serious problem with a moderator, bypass the mods and go straight to the overlords. Abuse will lead to demodification.
Moderators are elected. People shouldn't vote for people who are not suitable for the job.
The electorate can get it wrong (GWB anyone?!) but ...

Meta is where all the policies of the site, user grievances, and concerns are brought up and discussed. If you have a low meta participation people will make the assumption that you don't actively already participate in the molding of the site as it is today. It's merely a metric used to gauge a persons involvement within the Ask Ubuntu community.

What do you think about setting up something like the Stack Overflow Close Vote Reviewers chat room (SOCVR)? Aside from a recent surge in first posts, our close vote review queue has always been rather large. Every year or so, we see posts to clean it up:
Clearing out the close review queue 2015
Do we need a event to clear out the Close Queue?
Shall we try ...

It never goes below -1 (well, except when you add a downvote, but that clears out on refreshing)
See Election primary vote count is no lower than -1
It was decided to be too cruel to display a person as having a score less than 0.

Here is a set of general questions, gathered as very common questions asked every election. As mentioned in the instructions, the first two questions are guaranteed to show up in the Q&A, while the others are if there aren't enough questions (or, if you like one enough, you may split it off as a separate answer for review within the community's 8).
How ...

How do you deal with established users who have gained reputation, badges and privileges by illicit means?
This might seem silly but it has real world applications. Things like this, where >1k rep users do something really quite wrong, happen a couple of times a year. Dealing with it smoothly is important to the continued success of the site.
You are a ...